BeginTrans, CommitTrans, and RollbackTrans Methods Example (VB)

This example changes the book type of all psychology books in the Titles table of the database. After the BeginTrans method starts a transaction that isolates all the changes made to the Titles table, the CommitTrans method saves the changes. You can use the RollbackTrans method to undo changes that you saved using the Update method.

'BeginBeginTransVB  
  
    'To integrate this code  
    'replace the data source and initial catalog values  
    'in the connection string  
  
Public Sub Main()  
    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler  
  
    'recordset and connection variables  
    Dim Cnxn As ADODB.Connection  
    Dim strCnxn As String  
    Dim rstTitles As ADODB.Recordset  
    Dim strSQLTitles As String  
    'record variables  
    Dim strTitle As String  
    Dim strMessage As String  
  
    ' Open connection  
    strCnxn = "Provider='sqloledb';Data Source='MySqlServer';" & _  
        "Initial Catalog='Pubs';Integrated Security='SSPI';"  
    Set Cnxn = New ADODB.Connection  
    Cnxn.Open strCnxn  
  
    ' Open recordset dynamic to allow for changes  
    Set rstTitles = New ADODB.Recordset  
    strSQLTitles = "Titles"  
    rstTitles.Open strSQLTitles, Cnxn, adOpenDynamic, adLockPessimistic, adCmdTable  
  
    Cnxn.BeginTrans  
  
    ' Loop through recordset and prompt user  
    ' to change the type for a specified title  
  
    rstTitles.MoveFirst  
  
    Do Until rstTitles.EOF  
        If Trim(rstTitles!Type) = "psychology" Then  
            strTitle = rstTitles!Title  
            strMessage = "Title: " & strTitle & vbCr & _  
            "Change type to self help?"  
  
            ' If yes, change type for the specified title  
            If MsgBox(strMessage, vbYesNo) = vbYes Then  
                rstTitles!Type = "self_help"  
                rstTitles.Update  
            End If  
        End If  
    rstTitles.MoveNext  
    Loop  
  
    ' Prompt user to commit all changes made  
    If MsgBox("Save all changes?", vbYesNo) = vbYes Then  
        Cnxn.CommitTrans  
    Else  
        Cnxn.RollbackTrans  
    End If  
  
    ' Print recordset  
    rstTitles.Requery  
    rstTitles.MoveFirst  
    Do While Not rstTitles.EOF  
        Debug.Print rstTitles!Title & " - " & rstTitles!Type  
        rstTitles.MoveNext  
    Loop  
  
    ' Restore original data as this is a demo  
    rstTitles.MoveFirst  
  
    Do Until rstTitles.EOF  
        If Trim(rstTitles!Type) = "self_help" Then  
            rstTitles!Type = "psychology"  
            rstTitles.Update  
        End If  
        rstTitles.MoveNext  
    Loop  
  
    ' clean up  
    rstTitles.Close  
    Cnxn.Close  
    Set rstTitles = Nothing  
    Set Cnxn = Nothing  
    Exit Sub  
  
ErrorHandler:  
    ' clean up  
    If Not rstTitles Is Nothing Then  
        If rstTitles.State = adStateOpen Then rstTitles.Close  
    End If  
    Set rstTitles = Nothing  
  
    If Not Cnxn Is Nothing Then  
        If Cnxn.State = adStateOpen Then Cnxn.Close  
    End If  
    Set Cnxn = Nothing  
  
    If Err <> 0 Then  
        MsgBox Err.Source & "-->" & Err.Description, , "Error"  
    End If  
End Sub  
  
'EndBeginTransVB  

See Also

BeginTrans, CommitTrans, and RollbackTrans Methods (ADO)
Connection Object (ADO)